E cient and rapid capture of organic pollutants from wastewater is an urgent problem to be solved by adsorbents. Nitrogen-doped magnetic porous carbon (M-PLAC) with three-dimensional porous structure was synthesized from lignin to adsorb MB and TC in wastewater. M-PLAC had high speci c surface area (1252.21 m 2 /g) and N element content (7.44%). The calculated equilibrium adsorption amount by M-PLAC for MB and TC was 645.52 and 1251.09 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption of MB and TC on M-PLAC conformed to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, demonstrating that the adsorption process was attributed to chemisorption. The excellent adsorption performance was a synergistic effect among various adsorption mechanisms. The removal of MB and TC by M-PLAC showed fast and e cient characteristics, and exhibited high selectivity for TC in binary system. In addition, M-PLAC was suitable for a variety of complex water environments and had good regeneration performance, demonstrating potential advantages in practical wastewater treatment.

Cr(VI), a serious threat to human health, widely exists in the effluents of various industrial processes.. In this paper, the potential of industrial lignin for efficient removal of Cr(VI) from wastewater were systematacially investigated, including pulping black liquor lignin (BLN), enzymolysis lignin (ELN), and SPORL pretreatment spent liquor (FS). The structure characterizations of three lignins were investigated by TG, FTIR, BET, SEM, and XPS. Among these three lignins, BLN showed the highest adsorption amount of Cr(VI) and best selectivity in wastewater simulation. According to the Langmuir model, the calculated maximum adsorption amount of Cr(VI) on ELN, BLN, and FS was 765.60, 880.57, and 721.58 mg g− 1, respectively. The adsorption of Cr(VI) by industrial lignins was a chemisorption process, during which Cr(VI) was reduced to low toxic Cr(III). This paper provided a promising application for the effective utilization of industrial lignins.

Efficient and rapid capture of organic pollutants from wastewater is an urgent problem to be solved by adsorbents. Nitrogen-doped magnetic porous carbon (M-PLAC) with three-dimensional porous structure was synthesized from lignin to adsorb MB and TC in wastewater. M-PLAC had high specific surface area (1252.21 m2/g) and N element content (7.44%). The calculated equilibrium adsorption amount by M-PLAC for MB and TC was 645.52 and 1251.09 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption of MB and TC on M-PLAC conformed to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, demonstrating that the adsorption process was attributed to chemisorption. The excellent adsorption performance was a synergistic effect among various adsorption mechanisms. The removal of MB and TC by M-PLAC showed fast and efficient characteristics, and exhibited high selectivity for TC in binary system. In addition, M-PLAC was suitable for a variety of complex water environments and had good regeneration performance, demonstrating potential advantages in practical wastewater treatment.